Tending the Fire

I wrote the ten short stories in "Tending the Fire" to celebrate the history of fantasy and all its glorious trappings by exploring them in a new light. You’ll find existential stories about gnomes and assassins, cultural clashes between magical empires and lost villages, comic adventures and dark fables, stories that touch on the nature of dragons, dreams, and story itself. More

When I was growing up, fantasy was full of elves, dragons, and goblins. It was the mix of myth and fairytale that caught my imagination and made me fall in love with the genre.

Like everything else, fantasy literature moves in trends. Certain elements and tropes go out of fashion, and others are introduced. At some point the elves, dwarves, and monsters fell out of favor. To many readers, they became synonymous with a brand of epic storytelling that had grown repetitive and stale.

But these are the elements I love. I wrote the ten short stories in "Tending the Fire" to celebrate the history of this genre and all its glorious trappings by exploring them in a new light. In this collection, you’ll find existential stories about gnomes and assassins, cultural clashes between magical empires and lost villages, comic adventures and dark fables, stories that touch on the nature of dragons, dreams, and of story itself.